“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
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“I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.”
― A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together
― A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together
“Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence in stitches held fast by our touch.”
― Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
― Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
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